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2007-8 Seniors of
Significance
Each
Year the OSU Alumni Association
selects about 12 seniors to be
honored as “Outstanding” during
the May graduation. The
selection process starts in the
fall, and this year 41 students
(approximately 1% of the
graduating class) were placed in
the finalists group, called
Seniors of Significance.
Two of them are
Chemical Engineering Students,
Aleisha McCabe and Matt Beier.
Criteria for selection are
academic performance,
leadership, and service to the
academic community.
 Matt
is pursuing minors in both
English and Political Science,
to complement his ChE studies in
preparation for a career in
national and international
management of technology. He
studied at Cambridge University
for the past three summers, and
is a promising candidate in the
Mitchell (Ireland) and Rhodes
(Oxford) scholarships for
post-graduate studies, where he
plans to earn a PhD in
Quantitative Finance.
Matt is a Senator
in the Student Government
Association, and interned with
both Stillwater Mayor Bud Lacy
and OSU Student Affairs VP Lee
Bird. He was in the OSU
Marching Band for his first two
years; and since, volunteers for
many community and campus
service organizations.
Complimenting these leadership
activities, he was a recipient
of two Wentz Research Projects,
one guided by an English faculty
member, the other by a Chemical
Engineering faculty member.
Aleisha is on target to graduate with Honors, in our
biomedical option this May. She
has accepted a chemical
engineering position with Zeeco
in Tulsa, OK.
 An
extraordinary leader and
contributor, she has been an
officer in many student
organizations: including
President of Mortar Board,
Secretary of Omega Chi Epsilon,
VP of Professional Women’s
Fraternity, and President of the
American Institute of Chemical
Engineers Student Chapter. As
an AIChE officer she led our
students receive several
national “Outstanding” ratings.
She is an inexhaustible
contributor in many other
organizations that add value to
OSU, to its students, and to the
larger community.
Aleisha was selected for Wentz Research Project funding for
three consecutive years
supporting her research in
tissue engineering. |
